Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

Alan Cox
2007-12-09T15:31:09Z

> Newly broken ones will be regressions. How many do we fix by the
> change? On SATA, setting the correct transfer chunk size doesn't seem
> to fix many.

Regressions are not some kind of grand evil. Better to regress the odd
device than continue to break entire controllers.

> > Tejun - instead of backing out important updates for 2.6.24 we should
> > just blacklist that specific drive for now and sort it nicely in 2.6.25,
> > not revert stuff and break everyone elses ATAPI devices.
>
> We'll need to blacklist setting transfer chunk size, eek, and let's
> leave that as the last resort and hope that we find the solution soon.
> Blacklist takes time to develop and temporary blacklist for just one
> release doesn't sound like a good idea.

It seems to be sensible to me *if* it is just this one device we are
somehow confusing and that one device is holding up fixing everything
else.